Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the audience, and the fieldmouse that jumps out of Renfield's hand and scurries across the floor into the fireplace. There is fun, too, in the soundtrack: chilling animal calls in the distance, snippets of Debussy and Mahler and Holst, and a wonderfully ominous neo-Wagnerian leitmotif for tuba and timpani...
...notably with the Hungarian tragedy in the 1950s and the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme that many are yearning to hear...
...parts where the score calls for playing which is meant to be more lyrical than majestic, the group soundedvery fine. The soft chimes of the triangle in "Tuileries" played nicely against the winds, harp, horns and strings, and the tuba burst forth with round tones most of the time in the sad "Bydlo" describing a cart driver trudging along with his oxen. "Ballet of the Hatching Chicks" fared better than "Limoges" and "Catacombae," in which the brass were not as sharp as required...
...yeah, there were some occasional squeaks from the clarinets, a couple of oom-pahs from the lone tuba, but the overall observation was that those fellas in section 18 were about as useful as hemorrhoids on a race horse...
...first, Mentum lodged himself in the tuba section of the Brown band, which soon made a lot of noise when Bill Gilligan gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead before most of the crowd had finished its manicotti lunch (surprisingly, that wasn't the worst meal of the weekend, as it ranked second to last night's meat loaf and/or sardine combination...